THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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if not, indeed, than we have ever had. Certainly, the 
newspapers, and particularly those which do not make a 
feature of a “garden page” or anything of that sort, are 
much more ready to use the service supplied by the 
Market Development Committee, than they have ever 
been before. Some of them have said that their readers 
are getting to expect Ibis kind of material just as they do 
information in the other regular departments of the 
paper, such as sports, markets, fashions, etc. 
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Jl Obituary. ^ 
S. W. CROWELL 
S. W. Crowell, General Manager of the United States 
Nursery Company, Roseacres, Mississippi, died on Wed¬ 
nesday morning January 4th at the Baptist hospital in 
Memphis. Mr. Crowell had been ailing for the past sev¬ 
eral months and finally about two weeks ago had to give 
up, was sent to the hospital in Memphis Mr. Crowell 
was 52 years old and had been engaged in the nursery 
business for the past 30 years, his first seven years be¬ 
ing with the Alabama Nursery Company at Huntsville 
and then going into business for himself at Walls, Miss¬ 
issippi and after a few years there associating himself 
with the Good and Reese Company of Springfield, Illin¬ 
ois, the United States Nursery Company was in-corpor- 
ated and Mr. Crowell has been its general manager ever 
since. 
His funeral was largely attended by his neighbors and 
friends from Roseacres, also by many of the prominent 
business men of Memphis. The various Masonic bodies 
taking charge at the cemetery and he was laid to rest 
under an arch of steel by a drill team of the Knights 
Templars. Some ten or more of his colored laborers, 
many of whom had been in bis service for twenty years 
attended the funeral, and as is the custom in the South, 
these colored boys filled the grave. 
Samuel Watson Crowell was born March 14, 1869, at 
Morgantown, North Carolina His father dying while 
he was very young, his early life was passed in and near 
Hickory and Asheville, N. C., under the care of his uncle. 
He received the greater portion of his education at 
Weaverville, N. C , and soon after leaving school he went 
with Robert and Henry Chase to Huntsville, Ala, where 
he received his training for the nursery business under 
the supervision of Mr. John Fraser, Sr., with the firm 
then known as the Alamaba Nursery Company. 
On December 4, 1894, he was married to Miss Willie 
B. Bynum, at Lakeview, Miss., and soon thereafter he 
engaged in the planting business at Walls, Miss,. It was 
there also that his first venture in his lifework—the nur¬ 
sery business, was made. In 1904 he moved to Rose¬ 
acres, Miss., then known as Priddy Station, where he 
engaged in the nursery and planting business with tin 1 
United States Nursery Company, where he was located 
up to the time of his death at the Baptist Memorial Hos¬ 
pital in Memphis, Tenn., on January 4. 1922. He was 
buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, on January 5. 
He is survived by bis wife, two sisters, Mrs. T. A. Mott 
and Mrs. B. E. Simpson, both of Hickory, N. C., and one 
brother, A 11 Crowell, of Newton, N. C. Mr. Crowell 
was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee of the American Association of Nur¬ 
serymen, State Vice President of S. A. F. and 0. IF, a 
member of the Southern Nurserymen’s Association, of 
which organization he was president during the season 
of 1920, and member of the Western Association of Nur¬ 
serymen, as well as other nursery and trade organiza¬ 
tions, He was one of the representative nurserymen of 
the country, and his untiring efforts had built up one of 
the finest stocks of evergreens and other nursery stock in 
the South. His life and character were beyond reproach, 
and his business honor and integrity were never ques¬ 
tioned by any who knew him. His personal life was rich 
in his love for the beautiful things of life—books, flow¬ 
ers and music were almost a passion with him. The 
world has lost a wonderful fund of knowledge, and all 
who knew him have lost a friend. 
Whereas, death has again invaded our ranks and re¬ 
moved therefrom one of our beloved members, 
Be it Resolved by the Southwestern Association of Nur¬ 
serymen that in the death of Sam W. Crowell of Rose¬ 
acres, Miss., the nursery fraternity looses one of its most 
valuable members. 
Sam Crowell was a man of outstanding personality, 
conscientious in the discharge of every duty, and withal 
a true man In the councils of particularly two Associa¬ 
tions with which he was prominently identified, the 
Southern and National Associations, he will be sorely 
missed and his place will not be filled. 
Resolved, further, that a copy of this resolution be fur¬ 
nished the trade papers, and a copy be forwarded his be¬ 
reaved family. 
J. R. May hew, 
J. T. Foote, 
J. B. Baker, 
Committee. 
WILLIAM H. CASS 
January 9th, William H. Cass, Geneva, N. Y., died 
from a stroke received the previous evening. Mr. Cass 
was sixty-seven years of age and for many years had 
been member of the Cass Bros., Nursery Co., of that city. 
He was well-known and prominent in the business af¬ 
fairs of the city, being a member of the Board of Aider- 
men, having served for that body for the last twenty 
years. He leaves a widow and four sons. 
TWIN CITY NURSERYMEN AND LANDSCAPE 
ARCHITECTS MEET 
The Association of Twin City Nurserymen and Land¬ 
scape Architects held its annual meeting Jan. 12th. 
Mr. Harry Franklin Baker was re-elected president 
for the year 1922, Mr. John Hawkins, vice president, 
and Mr. W. T. March, secretary and treasurer. 
Plans were discussed for increasing a greater interest 
and understanding in landscape designing and the art ol 
gardening. 
